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Men, women, and children were caught in the crossfire and sometimes even deliberately murdered by both sides. del Toro does not sugarcoat the brutality of the Spanish Civil War as even the first image the audience is shown is of a dying and bloody child. Indeed, much of the violence in the movie is experienced by the young and innocent. In The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro, it is suggested that the violence in the movie “is commensurate with the brutality of certain fairy tales in their original form and also with a realist vision of the cruelty of war that uses the figure of the child to create greater empathy and affect the spectator”(Davies 192). While much of the cruelty in Pan’s Labyrinth is very graphic, it is the explicit nature of what is experienced by children that makes the movie hard to watch for some.

The film SE7EN was directed by David Fincher and stars actors Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The film was released in September of 1995 and received high praise for its brutal yet detailed portrayal of a psychopath’s analysis on popular culture and his disturbing methods of depicting it. The film brought to life real world fears not through the brutality within itself but through the meanings and representations of real life values that each one of the brutal acts represented. The movies title gives it away but there are seven acts that portray the Christian teachings of the seven deadly sins. The first brutal scene John Doe portrays in the movie is Gluttony which according to the Christian religious teachings is the overindulgence and over

Vincent Van Gough’s role was played by Kirk Douglas and the role of his brother was played by James Donald. The film received three nominations for Academy Award and Anthony Quinn who has a minor role garnered Best Actor in Supporting Role Oscar. Rotten Tomatoes considered this film as famous in which, the story was about the real connection between Van Gough’s brother and himself. This biopic has used almost 200 original paintings of Van Gough.

However, despite their presence in modern American world, Mario Puzo denies their role or importance in the lives of his characters. In his book The Godfather and American Culture (2002), Chris Messenger drew a connection between Puzo’s The Godfather and ancient epics in terms of themes and characters. His study was based on critics and psychoanalysts that have attempted to bridge the novel and the epic together. To name few, the critic George Lukacs, for instance, “sees the survival of the epic in the personalized tradition of the ‘epic individual’, the hero of the novel, driven to an ‘autonomous life of interiority’ when an ‘unbridgeable chasm’ has been created between world and consciousness.” (233).

John Woo has been setting the standards for the action genre for almost fifty years, additionally introducing to the world scene current world-class stars as Chow Yun Fat and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. His usual motifs, including stylized, smooth characters and the presence of pigeons, and his distinct action style with the frequent use of slow motion, the chaotic fighting, and even the use of two guns at the same time have influenced the majority of the filmmakers of the genre including Hollywood ones. Here is a list with his ten best films. 10.

The Godfather (1972) is said to be one of the greatest films ever made. When this movie was released in 1972, it was nominated for Ten Academy Awards and it won three: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was adapted from the book with the same name written by award winning author of mafia fiction, Mario Puzo. This film takes place in a span of ten years following the life of Don Corleone, the head of the Corleone Crime Family. It was a film that changed the history of cinema, introducing a very talented filmmaker and several acting legends in the telling of a story of a Sicilian Crime Family.

There seem to be multiple reasons for this murder, but none of them were really substantial enough to commit a murder. At the other end of the spectrum, we have got John Ryan, which early in the movie is presented as a racist and as an abuser. However, later on in the movie, he saves a woman that he had previously abused from dying in a car accident, now making him a hero. What is interesting here is that many of the roles in the story are either good or bad, only depending on their perception of the race conflict. There

The Correlation Between Macbeth and Modern Entertainment The Tragedy of Macbeth was written with many themes along the same lines as themes we would see in movies, literature, and music found in our society today. For its time, it was accelerated way beyond any literature we would see written then with these new themes. Macbeth contained violence, inhumane murder, a woman driven role, ambition, and a looming sense of evil. Between the constant violence and the introduction of the lead female role, most works of film today are centered around what Macbeth brought to the table long ago. The main character of Macbeth was a man who was driven to prevail, he would not let anything or anyone get in his way until he accomplished his task.

His background alone, lends to his directing style in that he has history as a dancer, actor and choreographer. This is seen in his work by the exact placement of the characters and the exact movements and of course the dancing. In doing some research, his movie Bringing Down the House was a box office hit bringing in $31 million on its opening in theatres.

In the very first sentence, he describes a scene where you picture “bullets” flying “through your windshield”(Barry pg 48). This acute image being in the first sentence of the essay gives out a huge shock value, making the audience want to keep reading. He then asks “how widespread is road rage?” (48), giving the reader some insight on how because there are so many people out in the world that have this rage, it creates a huge amount of danger. Starting the essay this way opens up the idea that the little things that make us angry throughout our day can lead to bigger issues with violence as he continues on to explain specific examples of things everyone experiences in their daily

Jim Kelly, Warren Moon, and Joe Montana are the three most influential quarterbacks of the last twenty five years of the twentieth century. Kelly’s contributions to modern offenses are incredible, but nothing is more impressive than what he has done off the field with his charities. Moon has helped bring about the age where there is no discrimination against the black quarterback, and Montana helped usher in one of the most successful offensive schemes of all time in the west coast offense, which is still used by many teams today. Many other quarterbacks of this time period were very influential, including players like John Elway, Dan Marino, and Dan Fouts, but Moon, Montana and especially Kelly were the most

It seems American media has tried to justify many mass shootings, to mental health. It is in the way our society ties these connections that it shows not only our politics, biases, and blind spots but also what it does for those troubled individuals, that acts alone (Metzl, "Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms"). It is hard to turn on a news and not hear about the topic of guns, with multiple mass shooting and the push for gun control, mental health is frivolously thrown around for political gain. When people associate extreme violence with mental health and read about murder trials defendants "not guilty by reason of insanity” it is understandable people do not want to be associated with this image. It

He does not show in details the entire system. In fact, he let the audience to make judgments concerning the effectiveness of the gun control in the USA, but he just shows that this system does not work. As a result, Columbine massacres can occur frequently (Finn, 65-66). Many important subjects and issues involved with the massacre, gun violence, and today 's culture are discussed throughout the documentary. One of the subjects that the documentary focuses largely on is the idea that fear is being used as a tool to create consumption.

We see the children in the film getting shot by appears and killed by spears. Although the film doesn’t seem that bad, it is very violent and would be incredibly shocking to audiences in the Fahrenheit 451 period, but audiences these days are far more desensitized to violence. These films in the dystopian genre also show how the themes reflected society yet they are in different time eras. Fahrenheit 451 was from the 60’s and

The story of ‘Mafia’, with all its violence, terror and internal turmoil has fascinated the Hollywood for a long while. It is no wonder then that Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas that is based on Nicholas Pileggi's bestseller Wiseguy is a cult classic. Unlike most other movies of this genre, GoodFellas does not focus on the romanticism of mafia, instead it shows the darkness inherent in that life. Through the story of Henry Hill, the protagonist of the movie played by Ray Liotta, GoodFellas explores the power and glory of being a mobster. When Henry is drawn into the orbit of Paul Cicero,the local kingpin, his life takes a complete turn.